<div dir="ltr">The thing that comes to mind is the story of the Confederate ship captain in Crying of Lot 49.<div><br></div><div>all the best,</div><div>Donald</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Mark Thibodeau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerkyleboeuf@gmail.com" target="_blank">jerkyleboeuf@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'd scold you for your transgressions against academic ethics, but<br>
that happens to be one of the ways I earned my drinking budget<br>
throughout my five year university career, and also one of the ways I<br>
softened my post-layoff landing in 2012,<br>
<br>
My bet is that there's lots of great Civil War related stuff--more<br>
particularly immediate aftermath, Reconstruction, the Square Deal<br>
reaction to that era's Robber Barons, etc--to be found in Against the<br>
Day, but I have yet to read it, so...<br>
<br>
Jerky<br>
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Smoke Teff <<a href="mailto:smoketeff@gmail.com">smoketeff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Soliciting recommendations for Pynchon-related lines of inquiry into the<br>
> AmCivWar.<br>
><br>
> I find myself in the position of making a living by doing the homework of a<br>
> friend of mine--heir to a huge aluminum fortune in Saudi Arabia, ostensibly<br>
> taking classes at a city college but really just enjoying the pleasures of a<br>
> major 2017 metropolis. He is taking a class on the Civil War. There is a<br>
> research paper involved. You get to pick the topic. If I can combine it with<br>
> some Pynchon reading that'd be cool.<br>
><br>
> Can't think of any obvious Pynchon digressions into Civil War type stuff off<br>
> the top of my head, assume there must be some.<br>
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Pynchon-l / <a href="http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.waste.org/mail/?<wbr>list=pynchon-l</a><br>
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